Legal Articles

This involves transferring property by a person who is still alive but may die soon. It is given during your lifetime.

a trust set up to function for the benefit of additional or alternate beneficiaries under certain conditions.

the term that means the exclusive right to ownership.

These are the facts that a law suit will be founded on and forms the basis of a right to sue.

a name given to a public employer who looks for properties that haven’t been assessed for taxes and puts them on a list to be assessed.

This means to give your permission for a physician to give you treatment.

the name given to the land and water that has a state has a jurisdiction over.

a trust where the trustee is governed by provisions in the will that created the trust and gives the income to the beneficiaries.

See Amendments to the Constitution.

a term when a child’s custody is awarded to a parent pending a divorce or separation outcome.

This term applies to a crime that is committed in one location and tried in another.

the term that is given to a minor who is absent from school and does not have his parents’ permission to be absent.

the qualified and denial of charges that is accompanied with additional facts that tend to prove the charges wrong.

a trial where a judge or a group of judges hand down a decision where there is no jury, also known as a trial by the court.

a trust that will name a trustee but doe not need him to perform any active duties.

a term that is applied to an in curable illness that will end in a person’s death.

These are the things that are immovable and fixed such as buildings and land.

where you put your own money in a bank in your own name as the trustee for another person.

the term given to the judge who will preside over the trial.

the title that is obtained by inheritance when the owner dies.